Head over to Hope Artiste Village for a different shopping experience. Presenting the unique work of 65 established and emerging artists and indie crafters, Craftopia is not your standard craft show. Craftopia is a captivating, day-long event filled with drop-dead gorgeous handmade clothing, one-of-a-kind jewelry, handbags, paper arts, super-cool housewares, with the unexpected and humorous […]
Unique shopping opportunities — ceramics, fabric, soap, painting, jewelry, monkeys — over at Hope Artiste Village, Saturdays and Wednesdays through May. From Rhody Craft 100. We’re excited to be reunited with many of our artists from last year as well as a bevy of fabulous new ones. We’re looking forward to another fun, festive season
The RI Council for the Humanities is having its Celebration of the Humanities on Monday, Oct 18: Join us for a Night of Curiosity on Monday, October 18th, from 5:30pm to 7:30pm, at Hope Artiste Village in Pawtucket. The Celebration of the Humanities is an annual event for honoring excellence and creativity in the humanities
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Learn how to mold and manipulate molten glass and metal, spinning clay, sharp pointy things, heating elements, beads, hammers, anvils, pincers, face masks, welding arcs, pulleys, and ledgers. Highlights for the season include more sessions of wheel generated form, glass casting, ‘found object’ welding, hollowware, making jewelry, metalworking, ceramics, and becoming a small business. Courses
Speaking of the Steel Yard, courses start in September — sign up now for ceramics, glassmaking, jewelry, blacksmithing and welding. Register online, by phone, or by mail. New this season — ‘Beyond Glazing’. Learn four major image surface techniques for ceramics: laser decal printing, silkscreen printing with slips and under glazes, stenciling, and decal application.
Who wants to go to the beach anyway? The sand gets in your egg salad, the sun makes you look like an old handbag, parking is a pain, and then of course. . . you know. . . Jaws. This alternative comes from the Steel Yard. Now is the time to register for some Steel
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Beverages — snacks — music — clay! The Steel Yard invites everyone to Clay-Doh, the first Works in Progress Fundraiser of 2010. With plenty of ways to get your hands dirty, drinks for kids and adults, good music and great conversation, Clay-Doh is fun for the whole family. Available for purchase at the bowl sale will
Special Mother’s Day Jewelry Making over at the Steel Yard — two classes, Saturday or Sunday. This is a special Mother’s Day Weekend offering of our Beginning Jewelry Workshop and it’s all about making and working with that basic building block of jewelry… the jump ring! The class will start with learning how to form
There are no known contemporary likenesses of Roger Williams so we can not know for sure. But since there are also no accounts of a run-in with a deli slicer perhaps we can assume. Joking aside, the scaffolding recently erected on Pratt Street up the front of Prospect Terrace supported the father-daughter team (he’s a
Hey, why not buy mother a present you might actually like to inherit someday. The RISD Alumni Spring Art Sale is scheduled for tomorrow, rain or shine. Not a problem. . . beautiful weather on tap for this one. RISD Alumni Art Sales feature thousands of items designed and created by alumni from all over
I meant to post this earlier but there is still plenty of time to register for the spring and summer courses at the Steel Yard. Learn ceramics, glass casting, stained glass, jewelry, welding, or perhaps metalsmithing with Lu Heintz who makes gorgeous stuff in many categories (including the very cool window grate at B Sharp
Still time to register for winter classes at the Craftland School of Craft. On tap for February and March — sew plushies, make soap (never talk about Fight Club), create pop-up books, stencil your skateboard, or learn basic stained glass construction as seen here by instructor Jennifer Daltry, who will get you cutting, grinding, foiling,
[youtube]Apf2Dl46rcw[/youtube] WaterFire Providence would like you to see some photos from their New Year’s Eve 2009 Masquerade Party (held at the Old Stone Bank on S. Main, a beautiful building inside and out). The party celebrated not only the end of another brilliant year for WaterFire it kicked off their 15th year of public art
This post is a bit on the early side, but if Black Friday got you down, and you’re wondering how you can make your own holiday shopping meaningful and cool, check out the Monohasset Mills Holiday Sale this Saturday from 2pm to 6pm. From Damian Ewens, surfer/artist/educator/DJ and recently poppa: Monohasset Mill is Providence’s most
As if the Wintertime Farmers’ Market (11am to 2pm) and Hewtin’s Dogs Mobile weren’t reasons enough to head over to the Hope Artiste Village today — Rhody Craft 100, a new artists’ group, is also open every Saturday in November, December and January as well. “All of the products are 100% original, 100% handmade, 100%
New roomier location! This is the same RRYS (organized by What Cheer Antiques & Vintage) held in the past at AS220. But let’s face it, it had become a victim of its own success and it was sometimes hard to eat, drink, try stuff on, and linger over the posters, vinyl and DIY crafts and